where do my python files go in linux?

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
>  On 14 Jan, 08:47, "A.T.Hofkamp" <h... at se-162.se.wtb.tue.nl> wrote:
> >
> > Rather than re-inventing the wheel, please have a look at distutils:
> > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-distutils.html
> >
> > It does most if not all of the things you want to do.
> > If you want something more advanced, read about eggs.
> 
>  Although distutils does some of the work needed by the inquirer, it
>  falls far short of what is needed to make a Debian package - that's
>  why you have the "new" Debian Python policy and why the authors
>  specifically refer to both distutils and setuptools in that document.

It would be nice to have an equivalent to dh-make-perl which takes a
CPAN module and makes a .deb directly.

  http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/dh-make-perl

What I usually do is

python setup.py bdist_rpm

Then use alien to convert the resulting .rpm into a .deb

I don't think these create particularly policy compliant .debs but
they are good enough for local usage.

>  Meanwhile, even stdeb [1] doesn't appear to completely automate the
>  production of Debian packages using distutils.

Looks interesting though!

>  [1] http://stdeb.python-hosting.com/

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